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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

Boris Johnson

I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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Dance Documentary People Respect War World
The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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Difference Speech Thinking Yourself
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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Age Character Darkness Humanity
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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Community Creating Hardship
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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Football Soccer Sports
Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
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Place Public Strong Transport
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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Mars Olive Pms Trees
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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Appearance Believe Flip Human Wall
Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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Deal Friendship Queue Trade
I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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Allow Behave Grace Reality Way
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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Country Hero War
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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Chance Myself Opportunity
The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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Differences Speech Thinking
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Becoming Chance Redneck
London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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Country Home Ping Pong
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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